Fonendoskop
Ján Viazanička
“It is important to understand whether we can register, maintain, and even love as many ways as possible to be part of the world.” – Bruno Latour.
Cities, villages, dwellings, administrative buildings, factories, shops, and infrastructure—these human creations are, in essence, no different from beaver dams, stork nests, or anthills. They are expressions of a species, its image, imprint, and reflection. Each has its own design, system, smell—and sound. But what are they telling us?
In Slovak, “fonendoskop” means stethoscope, a tool with a resonator used to examine a patient by listening. Our listening and examining object is a micro-place – an interior, a building, an anthropocentric structure, significant for its location, history, former or current function in the city – and its sounds, states, and relationships in which it operates. Our subject is the relationship between man and the (acoustic) environment that surrounds him.
Fonendoskop is an ongoing performative and sonic research project by collective ooo (Eva Vozárová & Fero Király), previously carried out at locations including the Slovak National Archive in Bratislava and the Moholy-Nagy University campus in Budapest.
Dates:
FONENDOSKOP S AM – September 13, 2024, Basel Architecture Week @ Swiss Architecture Museum & Soundcamp.radio, Basel
FONENDOSKOP MOME – November 23, 2023, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
FONENDOSKOP, SIDE B (48.15999996626228, 17.08219887315751) – November 11, 2023, 15:30, Slovak National Archive, Drotárska cesta 42, Bratislava // MANDATORY REGISTRATION FOR ATTENDEES
FONENDOSKOP, SIDE A A (48.15881903362187, 17.113964237625197) – September 22, 2023, 19.00, ROZPTYL, Karpatská 24, Bratislava
SOUND TOPOGRAPHIES is a series of events with a simple goal of listening to the world and the sonic landscape that forms its acoustic exoskeleton and exploring the relationship between humans and the sound environments that surround them. Listening means creating space for new questions – and new answers. Through hearing, we observe and study the acoustic expressions of the landscape and its sound quality. We map the world, discover acoustic spaces, and seek connections with various fields of natural and human sciences. We think and aim towards a shared world, emphasize the links between the environment and organisms – because the world we live in is a mutually overlapping arrangement.
